Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...herd instinct in Washington, sticks. The record never caught up. I was done in by my two chief virtues-candor and courage." He denied that either the White House or the State Department nudged him out, and said that both Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig telephoned to suggest other Government posts "in which I could render great service...
...efforts of Gerrity and Coburn suggest that solutions to the deterioration problems of Harvard pipes, radiators, wires, plaster, paint, brick and mortar exist, but the money dilemma lingers. Solutions to the problems, if found, will need funding--much more, many suspect, than the $12 million earmarked for the Houses in the capital fund drive. And raising more dollars, especially for important, but unglamorous and invisible mechanical work, will be hard. "Nobody's going to give a lot of money to something that already has someone else's name on it," Oscar Handlin, director of the University Library and Pforzheimer University...
...failed to earn the respect--or even the interest--of most undergraduates. Finally, after four semesters of frustration, the assembly last spring conceded defeat and asked the dean of the College to appoint a student-Faculty committee to review the role of student government at Harvard and to suggest changes...
...Student Assembly representatives on the Dowling Committee said they feared the assembly might be made subservient to CHUL or phased out entirely. Obtaining permanent funding for the impoverished assembly was their highest priority, they said, but they did not expect to get it. When the committee finally voted to suggest a $60,000 budget. Natasha Pearl '82 remembers, "I almost fell out of my chair. I wanted to take it and run, before anybody changed their mind...
Still, some professors suggest that considerations of gender, which once acted against women in tenure discussions, now often help female candidates. In theory, Rosovsky says, affirmative action means not only giving women candidates equal opportunities, but also possibly choosing a female candidate over an equally qualified male. However, he notes. "You hardly ever have equal qualifications." Nonetheless, some professors say references to gender occasionally crop up in tenure discussions. Though most decline to give details of such deliberations, one female professor says of the colleagues who chose her, "They claim, and I'd like to believe, that my gender...